Nice Photos.

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 February 2008

Most of us have taken one or two nice photos.

Here is my candidate as being almost quite good. In fact it is two painstakingly joined.

Taken up in the mountain at Skurdalsvatn in 2000.

Though this one takien in Warsaw in November 2006 is not bad:

I know there are several good photgraphers here, and it would be nice to see some of you best efforts if you feel inclined to share!

George

Posted on: 04 September 2012 by BigH47

Do you know what it is yet?

Posted on: 04 September 2012 by Tony2011

Is it a Graf?

Posted on: 04 September 2012 by JamieWednesday

Jose Ramirez?

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by Cbr600

Originally Posted by Tony2011:

Is it a Graf?

is it a sitar?

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by Kevin-W

Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:

Like the stairwell picture Kevin. I wanna go see the Italian Job bus too. Sounds like a great idea...

Cheers. What did you do to get those great colours in "Cracked it!"? I presume something in LR or Photoshop?

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by Kevin-W

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by JamieWednesday

Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:

Like the stairwell picture Kevin. I wanna go see the Italian Job bus too. Sounds like a great idea...

Cheers. What did you do to get those great colours in "Cracked it!"? I presume something in LR or Photoshop?

Hah..! If only...

It's something I've wanted to try for years and finally got round to it.

Using an IR filter you can cut out a lot of visible light.

Trouble is most modern cameras have very good IR blockers so piss all actually gets through. However, I have an old Nikon D70s now amongst the herd and these let through a fair bit of IR light. So one problem solved.

However, then you just get very red pictures

So, you have to figure out how to set the white balance

This then gives you a less red picture but still red

So then you have to figure out how to adjust and mix colours given photoshop elements doesn't have a channel mixer!

Then you adjust hue, saturation etc. just so

Then you realise it's out of focus 'cos Infrared travels at extreme wavelength and not all modern lenses have IR focus points so you have to start again!

Then you have to re-learn aperture vs exposure with the dark filter

Then realise you really need to put the camera on a tripod because exposures are getting pretty long

Then the battery runs out

Then after lots of research and lots of trial and error you get something like:

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by winkyincanada

Originally Posted by BigH47:

Do you know what it is yet?

It is the inside of a very nicely made 6-string dreadnought guitar. Scalloped braces and no glue runs. The soundboard looks to be a reasonable grade of spruce, but what are the back and sides made of?

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by BigH47

It was a Gibson picture I used.

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by JamieWednesday

Favourite so far - Works best when screen size!

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by james n

Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:

Hanging on to mummy

Great shot Tony.

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by james n

Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:

Favourite so far - Works best when screen size!

Very nice Jamie. I've just got hold of a step up ring so I can use the R72 filter from my Sony 717 I used to use for IR to try on my X100 which seems pretty sensitive in the IR region.

James

Posted on: 05 September 2012 by JamieWednesday

Yep, I've tried it on x100 briefly too, definitely works but need to take it out properly and hopefully will in next few days as the Sun's about now. Show us your results if it does it's thing!

Posted on: 06 September 2012 by Kevin-W